Racing Quotes

Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember.

~ Garth Stein

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.

~ Mario Andretti

Faster is fatal, slower is safe.

~ Amit Kalantri

What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle.

~ David Foster Wallace

There was nothing special with the way he looked at her but her heart raced even with a glance.

~ Pushpa Rana

I want to be the best race horse around when I grow up, Mama.You can be, Charlie, as long as you are willing to try your best and not give up when you have a bad day.

~ Deanie Humphrys-Dunne

In racing, they say that your car goes where your eyes go. The driver who cannot tear his eyes away from the wall as he spins out of control will meet that wall; the driver who looks down the track as he feels his tires break free will regain control of his vehicle.

~ Garth Stein

Most fellas like the races, though, Miss. It’s only human nature

~ Sara Sheridan

Fact One: Races are won or lost in key moments. Fact Two: Success in the sport is, above all else, about enduring suffering.

~ Chris Mccormack

It was very quiet at the hotel, as if there had been a death in the family. When you have quit the Tour, nobody really knows what to say or do. (...) Everything I'd previously achieved meant nothing; all I was now was a pro rider who couldn't finish the Tour de France.

~ David Millar

I hate studying and I hate partying. But I'm okay with motocross. And muscles.Motocross and Muscles. Now that should be a Lifetime movie.

~ Cheyanne Young

He's tall with shaggy blond hair and muscular arms. He's holding a twenty-dollar bill. He's muscular. And he's holding a twenty--wait, I already said that.

~ Cheyanne Young

Well, good afternoon, sunshine. How are you feeling?Like something the cat dragged in, then dragged back outside to leave in the rain, and mud, then the lightning hit it, and burned it, and the cat came back to tear it into pieces, before burying it.

~ Kimberly Montague

Putting down the power right from the whistle would be ugly and brutal, but it would get the job done. He wanted to tell her that, but this was the thing with coaching: you had to step back at exactly the moment you ached to step forward.

~ Chris Cleave

You won't always spoil her .or treat her like a princess.You won't tell her she's beautiful everyday.You won't make her smile every night and you won't always want her the way you do now.That fades.Those giddy little stomach flutters fade and you're then left with reality.There will be day's you will forget to tell her she's beautiful,even though she needs to hear it.There will be days you'll to say i love you.There will be days you'll forget a birthday or an anniversary.There will be a time when she will walk past you and you won;t want to ravish her, the way you do now.Those things fade, and when they do, what's left is what's truly worth fighting for Love isn't always beautiful, heck,it's not even close to being perfect half the time,feelings change, the spark dies down and what you're left with is something you either chose to fight for you don't When you know that even through those things are gone,you're still willing to fight for every breath ,then you know the love is real.

~ Bec Botefuhr

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Excerpt:Here are some thoughts from Charlene the Star:“I’ll bet that’s why Mama put the word “Star” in myname. I have a feeling I’m going to be a star as a jumper.

~ Deanie Humphrys-Dunne

Charlene's thoughts:I'm next in the green jumper's Class. I thought I'd be in the red jumpers' class because of my red hair.

~ Deanie Humphrys-Dunne

Racing is an escape from society. From symbols of status, and self-perception. A chance to just be. For everyone to just be, with each other.

~ Erin Beresini

Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.

~ Amby Burfoot

Running a race assigns a point to a sport that often feels very pointless. It's an exuberant payoff to months of tedium. It's a way of crafting an end boss for a particularly cumbersome video game. It's a fun, monstrous reason to keep putting one foot in front of the other. So, do yourself a favor: go build a monster.

~ Matthew Inman

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, he understood, but to be with each other.

~ Christopher Mcdougall

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

~ Jessica Savitch

There are other things that I could do, but there's really nothing that I love as much as horse racing.

~ Chantal Sutherland

I wouldn't dream of watching motor racing, cycling, or golf - which aren't truly sports anyway.

~ Howard Jacobson

I would rather have racing without computers. The human side is forgotten, and instead of talking over what's happening and just trusting the feel of the driver, the data becomes almost more important.

~ Jacques Villeneuve

I am a racer. I'm not a race car driver. I am a racer. I race. That's what I do. I don't go on vacations. I don't take my family on vacations because I don't have a family. My family is the racing family.

~ Tony Stewart

If the Indy Racing League didn't have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.

~ Mario Andretti

Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.

~ Frank Shorter

I've decided to retire from top class racing. It has been an incredible experience and has provided with me some unforgettable moments.

~ Sete Gibernau

Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.

~ Enzo Ferrari

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.

~ Mario Andretti

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

~ Ayrton Senna

I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.

~ Valentino Rossi

We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous.

~ Jackie Stewart

I hate to take compromises with a racing car. The more standard a car is, the more compromises you have to take.

~ Michael Schumacher

As the son of a racing car designer and mechanical engineer, I was exposed to motorsports from day one.

~ Charlie Kimball

Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

~ Sebastian Vettel

I've always had a fascination with cars and racing, not that I've ever competed.

~ Jason Statham

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

~ Dave Barry